How to feel the energies entering our home
This time we will again experiment the way to feel the energy (remember the practical exercise of a previous article?)
In order to see which energies influence our house let’s thing by where the high amounts of energy can enter. To many houses, according to the frequency to use the main door, the main energy of the house comes trough this “gate of energy”. In order to find out its qualities, imagine the landscape welcoming you when you approach the house or apartment you live in. it is more efficient if you do this when you are right in front of the door.
The entrance
Imagine that the light on the corridor of the block of flats where you live is not working. Is the door of the apartment lightened or should you look for the locker in the dark?
If you live in a house with yard, how do you feel when entering the gate and heading towards the entrance of the house? Is the yard well preserved or should you rather clean thoroughly through the leaves and weeds which have overwhelmed the garden?
Imagine that energy is like the human being: it likes cleanliness, tidiness and beauty. If it steps into a place full of garbage and which is a mess, it turns around and heads to your neighbours which have been more careful to welcome it.
If appropriate, put a small lightbulb at the entrance in the house, in order to enlighten the way for the energy coming towards you house. This way it will be attracted to your house instead of going to your neighbour, as showed above.
After you are familiar with the place in front of the entrance (and after you have arranged it the best possible) start analyzing the space beyond the door.
Inside the house
What is welcoming you in the entrance hall? A total darkness (how I had the surprise to “see” in some houses I visited), eventually completed by a mess of things or a clear and tidy atmosphere? The space is narrow, the doors are closed or the energy can freely enter the house, bringing freshness and joy to the inhabitants?
Remember: energy is alive. It needs space to manifest itself, just as we do. If as soon as it enters the house it is suppressed in a small and dark hall, it will not hesitate to run away from that house with the first opportunity when the door opens.
Feng Shui remedies
Please do not get discouraged if the situation in your house is like in the above examples. You are on the right way. You have identified the problem. The next (small) step is to welcome this special guest (the energy) as nicely as possible.
Carefully arrange the inside and outside part around the entrance door. Bring light and create as much space as possible, according to the possibilities. Clean the space (if appropriate) and move the useless things in the lumber room or closet. Place a big mirror (but not right in front of the door) to give the feeling of a double space. If you have a painting that you like you can place it closer to the door.
Finally
Of course the main energy of the house mixes up with the energies coming through windows and other doors of the house/apartment, creating a mixture which influences the persons living in the respective building.
At a more advanced study level of Feng Shui we learn how to analyze these energies, the way they interact with each other and to decode the way they affect us. Thus we can use more the rooms with positive energies and avoid those which might bring us weaker results.
There are a lot of remedies within the Traditional Feng Shui schools, which can be used in order to correct a flow of negative energies, so that they don’t influence us in a bad way. These remedies are known by those who have studied Traditional Feng Shui, who apply them according to the peculiarities of each house (see the “Consultations” section on the site). Just as people are different and react differently at certain medicines or treatments, the same way our houses may require remedies to be applied for each case separately.
To conclude in a positive note, here is a Chinese saying: “A long way starts with one step”. Translated in Feng Shui language, the improvement of our lives starts with the understanding of energy (qi) and of the way it influences our lives. Start applying today one by one, the advice of these articles and results will come soon. Good luck!
